''Minds and Machines'' is a

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covering

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, and cognitive science. The journal was established in 1991 with James Henry Fetzer as founding

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. It was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers but was taken over by Springer in 2021 (

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). Affiliated with the Society for Machines and Mentality, a special interest group within the

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. The current editor-in-chief is Mariarosaria Taddeo (

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Editors

Previous editors-in-chief of the journal have been James H. Fetzer (1991–2000),

James H. Moor James H. Moor is the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College. He earned his Ph.D. in 1972 from Indiana University. Moor's 1985 paper entitled "What is Computer Ethics?" established him as one of the pi ...

(2001–2010), and

Gregory Wheeler Gregory Wheeler (born 1968) is an American logician, philosopher, and computer scientist, who specializes in formal epistemology. Much of his work has focused on imprecise probability. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Computer Scie ...

(2011–2016).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by the following services: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 0.514.

Article categories

The journal publishes articles in the categories Research articles,

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, Critical and discussion exchanges (debates),

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, and

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Frequently cited articles

According to the Web of Science, the following five articles have been cited most frequently: * * * * *

References

External links

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